Revolutionizing App Modernization for IBM i Applications

Organizations are increasingly looking to modernize and mobilize IBM i applications. Sencha and CNX have partnered to help teams transform their IBM i applications into feature-rich, cross-platform web and mobile apps that deliver a great user experience.

Join us for our upcoming webinar where you will learn how we can help you:
Create a truly modern web application that goes far beyond a basic browser overlay of a green screen
Pair the business logic of RPG with Ext JS 6 to deliver a powerful, feature-rich web application
Leverage the Ext JS grid and charts for your data-intensive applications
Minimize your cost of ownership while maximizing application performance

Historically, web developers have approached app development from the desktop first, and mobile was a secondary goal. Now with the extraordinary growth of mobile users across the globe, that approach is being reversed. Developers are building mobile first, and then making progressive enhancements so the app is available on desktop. No matter the design approach, as developers we should always think universal!

In this presentation, we’ll explore best practices for building universal web apps, including:

Are you building sophisticated, data-intensive web applications? If so, you need to know how to implement a comprehensive end-to-end testing strategy that works for both your team and your apps.

Join this web seminar to learn how to create unit and end-to-end functional tests quickly and execute them on multiple browsers simultaneously. You’ll discover how to use visual inspection and page objects to create robust and maintainable tests, which in turn will increase team productivity and accelerate release cycles.

User interfaces often utilize components such as grids and tables to help users browse and understand data. Today’s large data sets require sophisticated capabilities to ensure users can effectively comprehend data while remaining flexible and responsive. Building this functionality is time consuming, has integration and maintenance risks, and worst of all, distracts developers from the task at hand -- actually building the app.

Attend this webinar to learn how the web’s most powerful data grid and GraphQL can help you deliver advanced functionality with minimal effort. You’ll learn how to:

- Leverage React and GraphQL to easily group, sort, filter, page, and edit tabular data in a highly performant grid.
- Use ExtReact’s built-in GraphQL proxy to fetch data from any GraphQL server quickly and easily.
- Integrate other popular GraphQL libraries such as Apollo and Relay.

Learn about the exciting new features in Sencha Test 2.2 early access release, including simplified test creation, defect management, and results storage. We have also addressed one of the biggest challenges that test automation engineers face at the time of product evaluation – how to build good tests using stable locators.

Attend this webinar to see a live demonstration and learn what’s new in Sencha Test 2.2 Early Access, including how to:

- Write application (end-to-end) tests for applications built using the ExtReact framework
- Select and use unique locators by using the DOM Tree directly from Sencha Studio
- Create and use Page Objects to build robust tests for web applications
- Visualize tests using a tree view and focus on the test under construction

ExtReact provides React developers with a complete set of components that can respond and adapt to any device, platform, or screen size. In this tech talk, we’ll demonstrate how you can deliver the right experience to each user’s device using simple, concise, declarative techniques. Topics covered will include:

We’re excited to announce our latest release of Sencha Stencils (formerly known as Ext JS Stencils), a complete UI asset kit for designers. In this release, we have included components using the popular Material Theme that’s featured in the Ext JS Modern toolkit as well as in ExtReact. Join us for our webinar where we will cover new features of Stencils 3.0 and Themer.

In a recent study by Dimensional Research of 1,011 development and QA professionals, almost every survey respondent cited that application quality is important, with 84% believing it is very or critically important. Despite this, findings revealed that 94% of teams still face challenges when it comes to conducting adequate QA.

If you’re developing a data-driven application with React, chances are you’ll use a grid or spreadsheet-like interface at some point to display data for your users. Depending on the context, your users may expect the grid in your application to be capable of:

A grid can be one of the trickiest and most frustrating UI components to build in React because many of the necessary features require both significant React expertise, as well as an ability and willingness to manage myriad low-level details in the DOM. Fortunately the ExtReact grid provides all of these capabilities and more.

Join us and you will see how easy it is to add the ExtReact grid into your application and explore many of its powerful features. We’ll also explore some of the other data-driven components in ExtReact, including charts, trees, and advanced visualizations such as heat maps and tree maps.

We just released Sencha Themer 1.2 and Architect 4.2. Themer 1.2 now supports all of the exciting enhancements and new components in Ext JS 6.5 and ExtReact, so you can easily style your applications with a distinct look. Architect 4.2 helps you accelerate development of Ext JS applications with support for Ext JS 6.5 and Cmd 6.5. Join us for our upcoming webinar where we’ll talk about these new features.

If you’re building sophisticated, data-intensive web applications but have not implemented a comprehensive end-to-end testing strategy, join our webinar to learn how. You’ll learn how to create end-to-end functional tests quickly across multiple browsers simultaneously, and how to setup automated test execution with our integration with TeamCity.

You will also learn how to scale the automated test suite to over thousands of test cases and cross-browser combinations for a complete regression cycle. We will demonstrate how we are able to locate a component, generate test code, and execute tests from TeamCity.

Join us and you will learn how to:
- Create a robust test strategy for Web Application Testing
- Implement page object design to improve long term maintenance
- Implement an automated DevOps process to kick off tests from TeamCity and execute tests in parallel on a browser farm

Join us for a webinar on May 31st where you will learn about Sencha’s newest release, ExtReact: the most comprehensive set of components for React apps. Now you can quickly and easily add any of our 115+ professionally tested and supported components including grid, tree grid, pivot grid, charts, D3 visualizations, trees, calendar, buttons, menus and more to your React applications.

With ExtReact, all of the components are designed to work together seamlessly which eliminates time-consuming integration work and reduces ongoing maintenance burdens. Attend this webinar and you will learn how to:

- Build data-intensive, cross-platform web apps leveraging Sencha components and React.
- Build immersive user engagement using layouts and adaptive design features.
- Leverage material design and other themes to save time and effort. Modify or extend themes without writing a single line of code.

Now, you can use Ext JS 6.5 to deliver rich desktop and tablet experiences for your data-intensive, cross-platform web applications – using the Ext JS Modern toolkit. With Cmd 6.5, you get support for ES2015 (formerly ES6) in Ext JS apps, dynamic package loading and support for Progressive Web Apps.

Join us for our upcoming webinar, where you will learn about:
Powerful new components and charts - DatePanel, Box Plot, Navigator
Major enhancements to modern Grid, List, Menu and Form
Enhancements to premium components - Pivot Grid and Exporter
Support for ES6, PWA, and Dynamic package loading with Cmd 6.5

Test automation is a journey; one that needs careful planning, execution, and maintenance. If you’re embarking on the test automation journey, join us for a webinar on May 23rd to learn how Sencha Test 2.1, our latest release, can help you with the critical steps of developing your test automation strategy including test design, managing defects, and storing results.

Developers who use popular JavaScript frameworks like React to build user interfaces often have to create components to build the interface. Building components is time consuming, has integration and maintenance risks, and worst of all, distracts them from the task at hand -- actually building the app.

Attend this webinar to see how to quickly and easily add more than 115 professionally supported and tested components from Sencha to your React apps.

Join this webinar to learn how to:

-Build data-intensive, cross-platform web apps leveraging Sencha components and React.
-Build immersive user engagement using layouts and adaptive design features.
-Leverage Material design and other themes to save time and effort. Modify or extend themes without writing a single line of code.

Learn how Extremely Heavy Industries successfully develops beautiful, data-intensive applications for desktop and mobile platforms using Ext JS. Join this webinar to see Anselm McClain, Partner and Developer at Extremely Heavy Industries, share his real-world development experience of using robust web development stacks. You’ll learn about:

- Best practices and challenges of developing high-performance JavaScript applications with a large code base.
- Building your own toolkit of custom components and code patterns to maximize application usability and consistency for end-users while enhancing productivity and encouraging code re-use for developers.
- Improving the success of data-dense web applications through the visualization of information and the tight integration of traditional grid data with technologies such as D3.

The session will include a review of a cross-platform demo trading application, and discuss how Ext JS is particularly well suited to data-intensive industries like asset management and financial services.

Sencha will also provide a brief overview and demonstration of Ext JS, highlighting some of the 115+ high-performance, pre-tested, and integrated UI components.

The appearance of an app is the first thing people notice about it - even before they test it out and see how it functions. Theming is critical to creating a great looking web application and with Sencha Themer, it’s easier than ever for you to create custom themes for your Ext JS apps..

Join us to learn how Mike Giddens, CEO at Crestone Digital, used the latest advancements in Sencha Themer to modify the theme of an existing app and win the Sencha Theming Contest.

If you or your development team are thinking about introducing Progressive Web Apps to your customers, join this webinar where we’ll provide an in-depth review of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs), how PWAs work, key enterprise concerns, and how you can use Sencha technologies to create PWAs.

Join us and you’ll learn:

- Key considerations before implementing PWAs, including topics such as security, data management, build automation, and deployment.
- How to create Progressive Web Apps using Sencha technologies.
- How to turn an Ext JS application into a PWA in less than 10 minutes.

Test Automation is not just for programmers. In this webinar, we will show you how manual testers can create a robust test automation strategy for web applications using APIs. Join us and you will see a live demonstration of how to:

- Manual blackbox testers who are looking to learn about automated testing
- Manual testers who are not familiar with using APIs to create test automation
- Test Automation engineers who write automated tests for applications that are deployed without awareness of underlying code

Sencha helps you reach the most people in a multi device world. We offer a web application lifecycle management platform enabling you to design, develop, deploy, and manage complex web-based apps and deliver the right user experience, on the right screen, at the right time. More than two million developers count on Sencha technology every day to deploy mission-critical apps around the world. Visit us at www.sencha.com or follow us on twitter @sencha